POLE-CAREW, William Henry (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P., d. 1835). b. St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854; recorder of East Looe 1857–86. d. Villa Poralto, Cannes 20 Jany. 1888.
POLEHAMPTON, Henry Stedman (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex). b. Great Greenford rectory 1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb. coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. d. Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. bur. in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch. Shrewsbury. A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton, 3 ed. (1859).
POLES, Stefan. b. Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles v. The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. d. Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov. 1875. Times 26 Nov. 1875 p. 7.
Note.—The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last uprising.
His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.
POLHILL-TURNER, Frederick Charles (son of Frederick Polhill 1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). b. Howbury hall, Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet 6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10 Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853; sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov. 1868, and 1 April 1880. d. Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881.
POLLARD, John (son of John Pollard, d. 1810). b. Kingsand, Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson; congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14 Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2 Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12 Jany. 1853 to death. d. Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868. G.M. May 1868 p. 786; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878) 504.
POLLARD, Joshua. b. Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites; member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868; member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877. d. Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. bur. Scholemoor cemetery 13 Dec. Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p. 7.
POLLARD, William (9 child of James Pollard). b. Horsham, Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale, Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed. 1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family 1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887; contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By Three Friends 1884 and 1886. d. Manchester 26 Sept. 1893. bur. Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester. Annual Monitor (1894) 126–39.
POLLARD-URQUHART, William (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). b. Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death; author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850; Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local and imperial 1867. d. 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June 1871.